Photographer, Blogger and Crafty Type

Today work was bonkers. Then really good. My work day ended on a very good note. That’s all I will say about that. But man, there were a few hours in between when I was all, “Whoa. Now what?” and then I thought, “What would Frances Underwood do?”. Just kidding. I’d never run for president and he did some VERY dangerous actions in and around the public transit system (NOT SAFE!), so I just drank coffee and responded to many emails and then things sorted themselves out.

I am so glad to be home right now watching House of Cards. I had to stay in Vancouver until after 8:30, so I didn’t get home until around 10 pm. Blogging, looking at these blossoms (photo taken in the parking lot of a bank in Surrey. LOLS! Such beauty!) and watching the best show I’ve watched (since Broadchurch) is yet another high note ending. Hooray!

I have a couple of photo shoots coming up and I need to take a trip down to Medina Cafe to scope it out because one of the events will be there. I have a few things on my To Do list for the next few weeks.

With any luck, the nice weather will hold out and I’ll get some good photos.

We’ll see tomorrow.

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Today was spent doing errands, laundry, and test driving a car that we may or may not be trading in our old car for (which is very sad and very noisy at this point. Some kind of belt needs to be tightened or replaced, and so do the brakes. It’s so loud when we drive it, we’ve started calling it, “The Opera Car” because it’s singing to us to, “Please! Fix! Me!). Not nearly as much fun as yesterday was. No candy! No lemon donuts! No sewing and reading modern block quilt books.

However, we did watch several episodes of House of Cards. And that was put on hold only long enough to made some dinner and then watch the Walking Dead. I predict we’ll be watching at least one more episode of HoC before bed.

I will not spoil anything, just know that Kevin Spacey is an excellent bad guy. So is Robin Wright.

This made today the perfect day to fix the binding on my quilt. The bottom corners were very tight and curled and since I have the time to fix it, I will do it. I spent a surprisingly short time picking out the seams around the edges and will make a new border this week.

I’ll get the corners right this time – I didn’t sew them right in the first place, I’m certain of that now.

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Our local Sally Ann sometimes has the coolest (and wierdest) stuff. And it’s open late – 9 pm during the week. It works out well for my schedule. Clearly. Yesterday I found these two glass owls for $4 each (I think. Yup. $4 each). They are actually bottles. Their heads come off!

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I could not bring myself to sew diagonal (or straight) lines through the kitties’ faces, so I opted to do plain old straight stitching all around the outside of the cats. Even though I put a border on this mini-quilt, I’m going to quilt straight lines right into it. Oh yes I am!

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This is another photo from the 3 hour tour of a photo walk from Saturday. I’m not sure why I like this photo. There’s garbage in it! I think it’s just the colours – red & green. You don’t see that too often in a dreary old alley way. For some reason, I also like […]

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Yesterday afternoon before the Maria Bamford show, Mike and I wandered around Granville Street and the surrounding areas. After following the drum beats to Holt Renfrew to see the Lion Dancers, we headed a couple of blocks over the Vancouver Art Gallery and found about a billion little sheep covering the grassy area of the […]

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After work today – Yup. It happens sometimes. We work the occasional weekends – it’s okay. It worked out well because Mike had to work, too. We met up and headed out on a very long photowalk up Granville Street. We were only about half a block into the walk when I heard the loud […]

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I forgot I had this teensy sheep in my china cabinet. This little guy was picked up many moons ago at a store we used to frequent in Khobar, Saudi Arabia. The shop was nick named, “The Waterford Crystal & LEGO Store” because, well, that’s what they sold. Something for everyone! That was a good […]